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This is for the future so I don't have to feel as pressured writing descriptions all at once.
This is for the future so I don't have to feel as pressured writing descriptions all at once. This includes links when applicable. Feel free to use those links to work on things yourself.


To do:
To do:
*[https://youtu.be/FAEmJpRQkyI This ONE Chilean Cinemark trailer I missed]
*[[Cinemark XD]] ([https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0euyqfNblmc here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sy6CtnG6z4 here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2atj64nf-M here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcT3bdtsrdM here] and [https://www.moceanla.com/portfolio/cinemark-xd-brand-refresh here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sO1Dy0a418 here])
*[[DVV Entertainment]] (likely when I'm done with Cinemark as it's a request from dad who said the logo was cool. He's right.) ([https://youtu.be/4o87q5mYb8Y here])
*Next after Cinemark and DVV I'm gonna try to clean up all the British ident pages. Maybe I'll do [[E4 IDs]] first.
**Ah, what the heck. Maybe some Japanese station IDs too.
*[[Sumo.TV]]
*[[Sumo.TV]]
*[[Grazing Goat Pictures PVT LTD]]
*[[Grazing Goat Pictures PVT LTD]] ([https://youtu.be/el-a9-c5qFg here])
* #HuluIDs on [[Hulu Originals]]
* #HuluIDs on [[Hulu Originals]]
* [[AVID:Logos to be Described]] de-countrying
*[[Triggerfish Animation Studios]] cleanup
*[[Triggerfish Animation Studios]] cleanup
*[[Cartoonito IDs]]
*[[Cartoonito]] ([https://youtu.be/S-VKV6iIzWU here])
*[[Star Thrower Entertainment]] cleanup
*Possibly a variants page for [[Best Brains]]?
*Possibly a variants page for [[Best Brains]]?
*[[Richard Williams Animation Studio]]
*[[Richard Williams Animation Studio]] ([https://youtu.be/6ovSSu3WUrc here])
*[[Universal Kids Originals]] cleanup
*[[700 Pictures]] cleanup
*[[SolotresD]] cleanup
*[[NWave Pictures]] cleanup
*[[Sutter Ink]] cleanup
*[[Sutter Ink]] cleanup
*[[Exodus Film Group]]
*[[Dog & Rooster Productions]] cleanup
*[[Wide Pictures]] cleanup
*[[Pinnacle Peak Pictures]] cleanup
*[[Animagrad Animation Studio]]
*[[Animagrad Animation Studio]]
*Describe 3rd [[Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment]] logo ([https://youtu.be/tzr4L3ykkRk here])
*[[GlenEcho Entertainment]]
*Describe the [[Finnkino]] Kidman ([https://youtu.be/UBKJDPff0xs here])
*The complete, fully described Nicole Kidman collection ([[AMC Theatres]], [[UCI Cinemas]], [[Odeon Cinemas]], [[Filmstaden AB]], and [[Finnkino]])
*[[Inbred Jed's Homemade Cartoons]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1I3ky_8eD8 here])
*Search 2022 [[PBS Kids]] recordings on YouTube for the new logo
*[[Pooja Entertainment]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lakt_kvWhSw here], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9i1-3EHfG4 here], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gaQqQhu04 here])
*Describe 3rd [[Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment]] logo
*[[Hudlin Entertainment]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSJ68m-P67E I] [https://youtu.be/-c9v0CFLAZA have] [https://youtu.be/JMFXK8CWVWo a lot] [https://youtu.be/ISrb9pCvgEE of work] [https://youtu.be/eg3FMAPRQj0 oh] [https://youtu.be/OSSmk2A5OV0 boy])
*Rewrite [[BBC Three]] "Captain, Spider, and Pointer" descriptions
*[[413 Pictures]] ([https://www.filmograph.tv/project/413-pictures here])
*[[Third Eye Motion Picture Company]] 2nd logo
*[[Genius Sonority]] ([https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DB4rhzlu2M here], [https://twitter.com/JamesTurner_42/status/1124489421137383424?lang=en behind the scenes])
*[[Inbred Jed's Homemade Cartoons]]
*[[Regency Theatres]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vs6ABTvBC4&pp=ygUQUmVnZW5jeSB0aGVhdGVycw%3D%3D here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7CwRXYCu8&pp=ygUQUmVnZW5jeSB0aGVhdGVycw%3D%3D here])
*[[Cinemark XD]]
*[[1091 Pictures]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivANlWeOm4 here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CazWlI4S428 here])
*[[Pooja Entertainment]]
*[[TBS (US)]] cleanup
*[[Hudlin Entertainment]]
*[[Christie Vive Audio]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10_q7uziqMI here])
*[[Search Party]]
*[[413 Pictures]]
*[[Magnavision Home Video]]
*[[Genius Sonority]]
*[[Regency Theatres]]
*[[1091 Pictures]]
*[[Datasat Digital Sound]] cleanup
*[[TBS IDs]] cleanup
*[[Christie Vive Audio]]
*[[MyHits TV]] animal ID
*[[MyHits TV]] animal ID
*[[JCE Movies Limited]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuY8Mcmu6o here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=uwpEFPjHVVE&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here])
*[[Sparkle Roll Media]] descriptions
*[[Jackie & JJ Productions LTD]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XM-haEJFs&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiwfzKqJiN4&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdu5DHQ3hcQ&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here])
*[[Mann Theatres]]
*[[Sparkle Roll Media]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPP3pvG-xy0&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_YvUz4R37U&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thorstenboose.de%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title here])
*[[Kodak ScreenCheck Program]]
*[[Mann Theatres]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mKLa8dNnQ&pp=ygUNTWFubiB0aGVhdGVycw%3D%3D here])
*[[Bona Film Group]] cleanup
*[[Kodak ScreenCheck Program]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlpIuRjMTIY here])
*[[Sil-Metropole Organisation]] cleanup
*[[Sil-Metropole Organisation]] cleanup
*[[Gemini Film Circuit]] 2nd logo if I ever do feel ''comfortable'' enough to describe what in the fresh uncanny valley naked baby hell is going on here.
*[[Gemini Film Circuit]] 2nd logo if I ever do feel ''comfortable'' enough to describe what in the fresh uncanny valley naked baby hell is going on here.
*[[Art And Animation Studio]] (cannot find uploaded; appeared on ''Goat Story'')
*[[MGM Latino]] ([https://vimeo.com/210869830/description here])
*[[Odyssey Network]] (too lazy to add links at the moment lol. Muppet Wiki has basically every "Muppetism" ID.)
*[[The Kermit Channel]] ([https://youtu.be/X1BFNZJ8lBU here])
*[[Vanity Fair]] ([https://www.devastudios.com/work/logo/vanity-fair-motion-logo/ here])
*[https://www.cgfx.la/?portfolio=roku This unused logo] for [[Roku]]
*More unused logo style frames [https://aswinehart.com/branding here] and [https://aswinehart.com/Wind-Dancer-Films here]
**[https://vimeo.com/189088766/description This reel of his] has an unused [[RatPac-Dune Entertainment]] logo, while [https://vimeo.com/380182014 this] has an unused [[Secret Hideout]] logo.
**There is an unused MTV Productions logo [https://vimeo.com/688996503/description here].
*[[M6]] cleanup
*[[Gato Grande]] ([https://youtu.be/QvFnEMuuMeQ?si=1LkorFXoMZn8qHPr here])
*[[Regal Premium Experience]] ([https://vimeo.com/413771567/description here])
*[[ABC Kids]] cleanup
*Unused [[Crunchyroll]] ([https://www.behance.net/gallery/176174611/Crunchyroll-Originals?tracking_source=search_projects%7Ccrunchyroll here])
*[[Paramount Network EMEAA]] ([https://clios.com/entertainment/winner/television-series-design/paramount-network-emeaa/the-mountain-is-the-star-146211 here])
*[[National Geographic Wild]] ([https://clios.com/entertainment/winner/television-series-design/national-geographic-wild/ng-wild-idents-147212 here], probably more)
*[[After Dark Action]] ([https://vimeo.com/41736997/description here])
*Unused [[Summit Entertainment]] ''Twilight'' variant ([https://vimeo.com/39081824/description here])


== We're gonna party, we're gonna rock, we've got tickets to the Cinemark! ==
== We're gonna party, we're gonna rock, we've got tickets to the Cinemark! ==


=== 17th Opening (2013) (Brazil) ===
=== 13th Opening (2008-2012) (Segurito y el Gato Joe) (Chile) ===

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'''Logo:''' Down a dark, foggy alleyway, a woman is running away from something, but is stopped at a dead end by a fence. It is revealed to be a pack of zombies chasing her, and she winces in preparation for the attack only to get interrupted by a ringing phone, which she and the zombies shush. A woman in the audience turns off her phone. The zombies walk out of the screen and into the audience. A couple is scared of one zombie's rising hand and screams, but he just shares his finger at them. People take pictures of the zombies on stage like the paparazzi, and one loses its arm, which get thrown towards a different couple. The couple is understandably uncomfortable, but gives the arm back. A man who looks a bit from Tighten from ''Megamind'' that snuck in four cans of beer sits down, only for the zombies to attack and eat him as we see a close-up of one of the cans of beer flying through the air. An elderly, rich and pompous looking zombie with a suit, mustache and top hat is smoking a cigar in the theater. A zombie little girl responds by smacking him, which knocks his head off, and he eats his cigar. The smoke from the cigar still manages to float to a smoke detector on the ceiling and set it off. We zoom through a dancing circle of zombies to see two firefighters standing proud in the center. The firefighter on the right gives a thumbs up. Suddenly, the lights go out, causing one of the audience members to turn into a werewolf and howl. The lights go back on and the werewolf joins the stage to shake his booty and dance with the zombies and firefighters. One dancing zombie detaches the arm of another and throws it, and it opens the push door so that some of the zombies can leave the theater. The remaining zombies, firefighters, and werewolf continue to dance, much to the excitement of the audience, as some audience members throw popcorn into the air. We pan away from the dancers to reveal that the Cinemark logo is on the theater screen. Two zombie hands hold up over the scene a blue and white metal plate with the logo for the insurance company Allianz and its slogan "Com você de A a Z" ("With you from A to Z") on it.


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'''Technique:''' CGI animation. This was made under the agency Z+.


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'''Music/Sounds:''' A rock song with lyrics composed by Henrique Racz, as well as appropriate sound effects like howling wind, screaming, camera shutters, and the werewolf howling. At the end, a narrator plugs Allianz.


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'''Availability:''' Extinct.

=== 18th Opening (HEY HEY HEY) (2014) (Brazil) ===

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This is still here for easy access in case someone my stepmom knows does translations in the future.
'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see a baby dressed as a spotted wild cat. He speaks to the audience in an uncharacteristically deep voice as the background reveals the front of a Cinemark theater, which a large cast of colorful characters is walking into it with their popcorn, singing "hey hey hey, hey hey hey, hey hey hey!"


== OSCA Test ==
Those walking in include:
* A firefighter lady who looks like Jessica Rabbit from ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''.
* A chameleon in a purple suit.
* Two goblin-like characters, one taller and one shorter.
* A heavy-set Batman parody.
* A blue elf with a red floppy hat and clothes.
* A creature with a green, bird-like body and a big pink nose.
* A stringy-haired magenta alien in a UFO.
* An old lady with a parasol.
* A pink unicorn.
* An elephant wearing striped red pants.


== Background ==
After everyone enters the theater and the chameleon says a line, we see a buck-toothed drink and five feminine popped popcorn kernels run up the steps as they yell another line. A large green hand points a beer bottle and beer can out of the theater, to the anxiety of the bottle and grumpiness of the can. A black man with green zigzag hair is filming with a digital camera, and a blue man who also has zigzag hair is filming with his phone. The chameleon, who is seated between them, eats the camera and phone. As viewed from above, the big-nosed green birdlike creature and then several other characters, including a previously unseen green character with an afro, throw their phones into the air, which have sleepy faces and are yawning. The elephant walks up the aisle while saying a line. The firefighter lady starts talking as the lights go out, leaving the eyes of all the characters glowing in the dark. The lights go back on, right as the beer can is trying to sneak back in. He runs in circles, panicked, before being thrown out of the theater again next to the puzzled beer bottle. The old lady with the parasol stands on top of the unicorn and opens her parasol to push open the push door as she explains it. The focus is again on the firefighter lady, who explains and dances in front of a fire extinguisher. A frog in a yellow medieval bard outfit brought a cigar in and walks to the left towards an emerald colored dragon. He starts to smoke as the dragon blows up smoke to the fire alarm on the ceiling, which lights up. The firefighter lady runs in with the fire extinguisher and sprays it into the dragon's mouth, to its distress, and at the smoking frog, who "deflates" in disappointment. More characters, including the baby, the now happier frog, a pink haired woman, and a green haired woman with a purple mask and dress, talk to the audience excited about the movie before shushing. We see an overhead view of all the characters in every seat of the theater as balloons rise up from their seats, allowing them to fly. The background turns black, and with two final times singing "hey hey hey, hey hey hey, hey hey hey!", we see that flying with them is a banner with the Allianz logo on it. The background turns white as the characters fly off into the distance and the Allianz logo takes the screen. The shadows of the characters dancing appear and disappear.


'''''Fraggle Rock''''' is a family puppet series created by Jim Henson that ran from 1983 to 1987. Filmed in Canada, the show was created out of a desire to cause world peace. It focuses on the titular underground world of Fraggle Rock, where many creatures, notably the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs, live their lives and slowly, over the course of 5 seasons, learn how they are connected. The show has been acclaimed for its handling of many difficult subjects, such as death, prejudice, societal injustice, and protecting the environment, and containing many catchy songs to keep things from getting too heavy. A rebooted series, ''[[Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock]]'', premiered on [[Apple TV+]] on the night of January 20, 2022.
'''Technique:''' Fluid hand drawn animation by Céu D´Ellia.


=== Theme Song (January 10, 1983-March 30, 1987) ===
'''Music/Sounds:''' The upbeat and catchy main song, as well as plenty of dialogue and cartoon sound effects. At the end, a narrator plugs Allianz. Composed by Fabio Góes.


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'''Availability:''' Extinct.


'''Visuals:'''
=== 19th Opening (2014) (Brazil) ===


# The camera pans through the window of a house with ivy growing on it. Inside is an old man named Doc (Gerry Parkes) and his dog, Sprocket (Steve Whitmire). Doc is working hard at his workshop with a screwdriver, while Sprocket, who is lying on a dog bed next to a yellow bowl with his name on it, shifts his weight. The camera continues panning through the workshop to a hole in the wall.
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# Through the hole is a tunnel in Fraggle Rock, which Gobo Fraggle (in his early design, as the intro was never re-filmed; performed by Jerry Nelson) is hopping through excitedly. Eventually, he makes it back to the Great Hall, where a large crowd of Fraggles, including the other members of the main "Fraggle Five" (from left to right: Mokey (Kathryn Mullen), Red (Karen Prell), Wembley (Steve Whitmire), and Boober (Dave Goelz)) are waiting for him. Some Doozers are also visible on some Doozer constructions. The crowd sings the theme song together, clapping to the rhythm at certain points.
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# A page-turn transition reveals another angle of the Fraggles, including a parent holding a baby (baby Fraggles were ultimately very rare until ''Back to the Rock'' due to the show's reluctance to cover childbirth).
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# Another page-turn flips into a closer view of the Doozers, hard at work building a tower. Some are driving vehicles, and others are working with jackhammers, but all are singing a verse in the song. The Fraggle Five pop up behind them. The camera gets closer to them, then pans from left to right, showcasing Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and finally Red.
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# A sudden cut shows Red gleefully diving into a pond in the background as Gobo further explores into the caves. After several shots of him exploring, he makes it through a hole to peek out into the Gorgs' Garden. Junior Gorg (Richard Hunt performing face and voice, Rob Mills in suit) spots him, and grabs him in his massive hand. Excited to have caught a "Fwaggle", Junior lifts Gobo into the garden and gleefully shows him to his Ma (like Gobo, in her early design; Myra Fried performing face and voice and Trish Leeper in suit), who screams in fright at the creature (Pa Gorg (Jerry Nelson performing face, Gord Robertson in suit) is slightly visible behind Junior). Ma's scream startles Junior, causing him to accidentally fling Gobo into the well (a closer look shows that the plush prop representing Gobo rather violently hits the well's side before falling in).
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# He falls into a pond in the Great Hall below as all the other Fraggles continue singing and dancing. With the text "FRAGGLE ROCK" in the golden shape of a rock superimposed over the scene, the rest of the Fraggle Five regroup around him, as Wembley voluntarily dives in next to him.
# A shot is shown of the Fraggle Five minus Boober, with Red and Mokey doing a single nod out of the water and Wembley and Gobo still drenched between them. The text "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" fades in in turquoise below "FRAGGLE ROCK" before the logo disappears.
# The final shot is of Boober, lying on his stomach near some purple flowers with his hands on his chin. After saying "down at Fraggle Rock" in a monotone voice, he crouches down in time with the music.


'''Trivia:'''
'''Logo:''' We see inside the megaphone of a director as he yells "order!" He puts down his megaphone and speaks to the audience as he backs up. The crew of the movie he is directing puts away the camera, lights, director chair, and Colosseum backdrop, and an actor and actress in Greco-Roman clothing leaves as he backs up, revealing a theater behind it all. The director walks up the stairs, continuing to talk before he starts to sing. The actor and actress are talking with beers in front of a "Bar Bla-Bla" backdrop. One crew member pushes away the backdrop, another shows them a "no beer" sign, and another starts talking to them about what they did wrong (inaudible under singing). As he starts to take away their beer, it turns out he didn't turn off his phone in the theater and it starts ringing, with the director chastising him singing on the screen. A woman in a pink shirt is filming the movie with her camera, so the director and crew drive their van behind her to tell her to put it away, which she does. The actor uses a match to light the actress' cigarette, which sets off the smoke alarm. A crew member stops her smoking by clapping a clapperboard in front of her. The cigarette falls to the ground and starts a fire, but three firemen put it out with a hose while singing. The lights go out, leaving only the glowing eyes of the actor and actress, but they come back on, causing the actress to sing in delight as she holds the scared actor. The director and crew run down the aisle. We see a shot of empty confectionary cardboard getting thrown away in the trash. After another shot of the director and crew, we see the audience excited for the movie. We see the director, crew, actor, and actress on a soundstage getting ready for filming, with a backdrop to the left side marketing Cinemark 3D (the clearest shot of the mostly absent Cinemark logo in the trailer). One member of the crew covers the scene with a backdrop with the Allianz logo and "Com você de A a Z" slogan on it. He explains it to the audience.
* The song has been referenced within the show itself on several occasions:
** "Boober Rock" (Season 2, Episode 2): Red sings the song loudly while playing with other Fraggles, to Boober's annoyance. Later, she sings her own version of the song to mock Boober: "Dance your pants away/Worries will be here to stay/If you spend your day/Down in Boober Rock!"
** "Boober's Dream" (Season 2, Episode 6): Sidebottom can briefly be heard singing the song after "Dream A Dream (And See)" ends.
** "Fraggle Wars" (Season 2, Episode 17): The Cave Fraggles, in contrast to the Rock Fraggles, have their own 1st wave alternative rock version of the theme, "Down In Fraggle Cave": "Worry, wrath, and rave/No time now for being brave/Order's what we crave/Down in Fraggle Cave"
** "Gobo's School for Explorers" (Season 3, Episode 12): Gobo briefly whistles the theme.
** "The Riddle of Rhyming Rock" (Season 5, Episode 2): Gobo sings the theme in an attempt to solve the titular riddle.
** "Mokey, Then and Now" (Season 5, Episode 8): It is revealed that, due to a bootstrap paradox, Mokey is the one who technically wrote the theme due to her also being the savior of the Ancient Fraggles, Blundig, who traveled back in time. She sings the song to the Ancient Fraggles, who are so impressed by its ideals that they abolish laws against laughter to dance and play like the song tells them to, sparking the beginning of the Fraggles as we know them now.
* Out of 17 possible intros, Jim Henson chose this one, the 11th.
* According to the book ''Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History'' (2021):
** Out of all the work Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee did for the show, the theme song was the biggest challenge. This is because the series has a remarkably complex premise that was difficult to explain with a song in such a short runtime.
** The process of writing the theme didn't start until five or six episodes were filmed.
** The ultimate focus on only the chorus instead of the verse-and-chorus structure of the unused theme was due to the limited time allowed for a theme song making the chorus the strongest part, overshadowing the rest.
** The single most challenging part to write was where to put the Fraggle Five introducing themselves individually, as Jim Henson requested it be part of the theme, but there wasn't a lot of room for it. This explains why said verse is so rapid-fire. The speed of the verse made it so that Balsam himself couldn't sing it, though Jim Henson could.
** As it was very chilly in Toronto on the day of filming (in January of 1983), most of the puppeteers were sick with colds and the flu.
** The clapping was done with mechanisms inside of the Fraggles' arms. Red's arm mechanism was broken, however, so Karen Prell hid her puppet's arms behind a rock.
* At end of the music video for "Do It Anyway" by Ben Folds Five (2013), which heavily features the Fraggles throughout, the band briefly covers the song alongside Red and Boober.
* In the final 2020 quarantine-produced ''Fraggle Rock: Rock On!'' short, the theme is covered by a wide range of celebrities: Alanis Morrisette, Ziggy Marley, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Common, and Jason Mraz.


'''Variants:'''
'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Exodo Animation Studios and Area VFX.
* Due to the show's international nature, three countries - the UK, France, and Germany - replaced the North American Doc and Sprocket segments with locally-shot ones. As such, the first scene is altered accordingly:
** UK: The camera pans over a lighthouse (St. Anthony's Head Lighthouse at Falmouth Harbor in Cornwall, England) on a rocky British shore as waves crash. It zooms closer until it goes through a window on the roof. What follows inside the lighthouse depends on the variant:
*** One variant extends the beginning lighthouse shots to pan over the ocean.
*** On most episodes, The Captain (Fulton MacKay) and Sprocket (Dave Barclay) sit at a desk playing chess together.
*** Some episodes show The Captain filling Sprocket's dog bowl.
*** On "The Bells of Fraggle Rock" (Season 3, Episode 1 in North America, an unnumbered special in the UK), the lighthouse is decorated inside for Christmas, with a Christmas tree. The Captain gives Sprocket a present.
*** On "Born to Wander" (Season 3, Episode 15 in North America, Episode 401 in the UK), Sprocket is in the lighthouse all alone, as The Captain has left and his new owner, his nephew P.K., hasn't arrived yet. He checks under his empty bowl for kibble, but there is none. He sadly rests his chin on his paw.
*** Starting with "Boober and the Glob" (Season 3, Episode 2 in North America, Episode 402 in the UK), P.K. (John Gordon Sinclair) and Sprocket play tug-of-war with a toy rope. Sprocket pulls P.K. to the ground.
*** From "Gone, But Not Forgotten" (Season 5, Episode 7 in North America, Episode 601 in the UK) to the end of the series, the scene is superimposed over the window as it is entered. Sprocket's new owner, B.J., (Simon O'Brien) is rubbing his belly.
*** Regardless of variant, the camera then pans past the dog and owner into a hole in the wall.
** France: The camera pans through different windows from the North American version. Inside, Croquette, the French version of Sprocket (Dave Barclay), is lying in his bed. Behind the desk, the French version of Doc (Michel Robin) is tinkering with something. The camera pans through a hole in the wall.
** Germany: The camera pans through a semicircle-shaped window on a brick building covered in moss. The rest of the scene is a shot-for-shot remake of the North American one, but with the German Doc (Hans-Helmut Dickow).
* Five endings were shot, one for each main Fraggle, but it appears the crew ultimately wanted to stick to Boober's ending. Two variants have resurfaced, however:
** Wembley: Wembley whispers "down at Fraggle Rock!" Appeared on the original airing of "The Terrible Tunnel" (Season 1, Episode 8).
** Gobo: Gobo says "down at Fraggle Rock!" as he holds an odd racket-like object. He then hits a pebble volleyed at him with it. Appeared on the original airing of "The Finger of Light" (Season 1, Episode 12).
** The variants with Mokey and Red, while reportedly in existence, have yet to resurface.
** Oddly, prints from 2016 onwards, including Apple TV+ prints of these episodes, keep the audio of Gobo and Wembley's lines, but play it over Boober's footage.
* Many color variants for the "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" text exist, with it coming in multiple shades of orange, green, teal, blue, purple, and pink.
* On many 2000s and 2010s prints, the superimposed logo has been changed to match the current logo of the franchise, which has the Jim Henson logo atop it, is yellow in color, and isn't rock-shaped. It also fades in much faster, before Wembley dives into the pond. The likely reason for this change is because of the fact that, since 2004, [https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Who_owns_which_Muppet_productions%3F?so=search the Fraggles have been unable to be legally called "Muppets"]. Despite this, the original logo, "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" text and all, is still intact on airings on The Hub and Apple TV+ prints.
* On the 1984 ''Doozer Music'' VHS compilation tape (which is streaming on Apple TV+), the song stops after the Doozers' verse.
* Many relatively-recent TV airings, such as on Odyssey Network and The Hub (both now defunct), shortened the theme, skipping from the end of the first verse in the Great Hall to Boober's ending line.
'''Technique:''' Live-action puppetry.


'''Song:''' Opening with a bassline, a cheery, catchy song with rhythmic clapping sung by all of the citizens of the Rock, written by the show's two most prolific songwriters, Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee.
'''Music/Sounds:''' The song (vaguely similar to funk) and dialogue.


'''Availability:''' Extinct.
'''Lyrics:'''


'''Other Audio:'''
=== 20th Opening (2016) (Brazil) ===


'''Legacy:''' A very popular theme that, similarly to those for ''DuckTales'' and ''Animaniacs'', is particularly infamous for its catchiness.
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== E4 ==
'''Logo:''' Red stage curtains open to reveal hanging lightbulbs in the shape of "CINEMARK" that light up and are hoisted offscreen. Candy falls onto screen and forms into a fire extinguisher that sprays, with the text "Sistema Automatico de Detecçāo de Fumaça" ("Automatic Smoke Detection System") below. Red and white tickets form a door with an arrow pointing to it, with the text below now reading "Consulte a Brigada de Incêndio" ("Consult the Fire Brigade"). A stick figure made of white tickets leaves through the door as the text now reads "Para abrir a porta, basta empurrar a barra" ("To open the door, just push the bar"). Yellow, blue, black, and white sticky notes form a camera and red sticky notes form a "no" sign around it, and the text now reads "Proibida a captaçāo de imagens e sons" ("Capture of images and sounds is prohibited"). All of the sticky notes go into a little blue envelope. A red wheel used to control theater sets spins as film moves to its sides. The text reads "Por favor, nāo fume" ("Please, don't smoke") as the wheel turns into a "no" sign and a cigarette flies behind it. With the text "Proibida entrar na sala com latas e garrafas" ("Entering the room with cans and bottles is prohibited") below, cut-out animated people enter a theater. The way they sit forms a cell phone, which rings. The people then all slide downwards off the screen. Colorful straws color the screen, with the text stating "O Cinemark nāo é responsável por objetos deixados na sala" ("Cinemark is not responsible for objects left in the room"). The other straws enter a trash bin made of red straws, which collapses. A bag of Cinemark popcorn shows up on a red background, and the popcorn starts popping upwards out of the bag. The popcorn forms a couple that kisses twice, before it fills the whole screen. The popcorn falls away to just the sides, revealing the Cinemark logo in the middle. The popcorn then covers and uncovers the screen again, and candy pulses out to frame the Allianz logo, with the text below it reading "Consulte um corretor ou acesse www.allianz.com.br" ("Consult a broker or visit www.allianz.com.br").
== Background ==
'''E4''' is a sister channel to [[Channel 4]], launched in the UK on January 18, 2001. It airs programming for younger audiences than the main channel, such as reality TV, American imports, and youth-oriented dramas, most notable being the long-running soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. In the past, the network also aired lots of comedy, but most of the comedy has been moved to another sister channel, E4 Extra, that was launched in 2022.


'''Note:''' This page only covers the channel's main idents. For the many E-Stings made for the network, go to [[E4 E-Stings|this page]] instead.
'''Technique:''' Stop motion animation by someone only known on Vimeo as "Dani".


=== 1st Ident (January 18, 2001-2004) ===
'''Music/Sounds:''' In order: a triumphant and twinkly theme at the beginning, the candy falling, the fire extinguisher spraying, a fire alarm, the footsteps of the stick figure and it opening the door, a mysterious-sounding upwards marimba note when the sticky notes appear, the red sticky notes slapping down into a "no" sign, the notes crumpling, film running, someone going "mm-mm" in disapproval, people talking, a very short piano theme, the phone ringing, buzzing, and beeping, what sounds like the reversed and distorted voices of a crowd with the crumpling of the straws and a single note, popcorn popping, two kisses, and a stock harp glissando with a clapping audience that turns into a 5-note piano theme.


'''Visuals:''' Depends on the variant, though CGI, sapient E4 logos with squeaky voices and mischievous personalities, as well as the destruction of Channel 4 idents, are two very common themes.
'''Availability:''' Extinct.


'''Variants:'''
=== 21st Opening (MC Pipoca & DJ Refri em Vai ser um Esturo) (2016) (Brazil) ===
* '''Breakdown:''' The teal variant of the 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. Suddenly, a purple "E4" leaps out through the lines. It halts their movement, and holds the lines open like an elevator, revealing the room behind it. Other colorful "E4"s, in red, blue, yellow, and green, leap over the purple "E4" as it struggles to keep the rectangles open. The purple "E4" strains itself, causing one of the rectangles to fall to the ground and the Channel 4 logo in its square (which was suspended to the mechanism) to burn out its light. The purple "E4" falls over, taking the rectangle to its left with it. It looks around alarmed as the whole Channel 4 ident mechanism breaks down, with most of the rectangles collapsing and the Channel 4 light flickering in and out. The other "E4"s hop by from from left to right, and the purple "E4" joins them.
* '''Race:''' Two slot race cars, a red one numbered "6" and the other one in yellow and marked "E4", start to race. They zoom past the plastic scenery, including figures of the pit crew. A police car gets involved and halts the race. An aerial shot reveals that the track is in the shape of the E4 logo.
* '''Gravy:''' A mother prepares mashed potatoes and sausages in a kitchen. At the table, her three daughters are remarkably impatient, screaming at her for the food and loudly banging their forks and knives against the table. The mom pours gravy over the dish, which takes the shape of the E4 logo. Exhausted, she yells "coming!" After a bit, she lifts the plate.
* '''Coloured Bars:''' SMPTE color bars are shown. The bars are zoomed into, revealing that they are made of monochrome E4 logos and that two "E4"s, a purple and a blue, are standing in the wrong places. The two "E4"s swap spots. The screen zooms out again.
* '''Rabbits:''' Inside a house, plants grow taller in time-lapse photography. Various mail and a telephone are thrown into the plants. Three white rabbits, a New Zealand, an English lop, and a smaller lop (either a Holland lop or mini lop), are dropped in. They hop around munching on the plants. An overhead shot reveals that they ate an "E4" into the plants.
* '''Factory:''' The blue 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. The camera pans over it as the Channel 4 square logo slides out of the way like a sliding door, revealing an orange light. 1982 Channel 4 logos line up to fall into the light, moved forward by the top of the rectangles functioning as a conveyor belt. As they fall, the blocks of the "4"s separate and form into multicolored individual E4 logos. The "E4"s then fall into packing peanuts within "E4"-marked boxes on a conveyor belt.
* '''Escape:''' The orange 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. A pan underneath the ident reveals that the rectangles are lasers that five "E4"s (green, red, blue, purple, and yellow) are trying to dodge. While the others escape, the yellow "E4" lags behind, touches a laser, and gets caught. The lasers turn off to reveal a spotlight on the terrified yellow "E4". It turns around, only to get gunned down and fall on the floor. It turns out, however, that bullet holes only formed around the "E4", leaving the impression of the E4 logo on the ground. The yellow "E4", happy to be immune to bullets, gets up and skips away.
* '''Puzzle:''' On a bare hospital bed in a dark, grimy room, a blue "E4" wakes up in a cold, panicked sweat. It watches in horror as the other "E4"s hop around it. The camera zooms out and flips upside-down to reveal that the other "E4"s are exploring the stairs from "Relativity" by M.C. Escher. The blue "E4" becomes even more frightened when it realizes that its bed is upside-down. It falls a long way through the stairs to its hospital bed, again in a cold sweat as the cycle repeats itself.
* '''Shattered:''' The 1982 Channel 4 logo starts as normal. It falls over and shatters. From the shattered pieces, many "E4"s are born, gleefully hopping away. The others outside of a single purple "E4" leave, and the purple "E4" takes the place of the Channel 4 logo.


'''Technique:''' Depends on the variant.
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'''Logo:''' TBA.
'''Audio:''' Depends on the variant.


=== 2nd Ident (2004-December 9, 2007?) ===
'''Technique:''' CGI animation by CLANVFX. Rigging for the trailer by Fabricio Chamon can be found [https://vimeo.com/136553645/description here].

'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA.

'''Availability:''' Extinct.

=== 22nd Opening (2016) (Argentina) ===

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'''Visuals:''' A pair of idents involving an "E4"-branded band in purple suits, consisting of three guitarists, a drummer, and a man on the marimba, playing Muzak. The E4 logo appears in white in the corner.
'''Logo:''' TBA.


'''Technique:''' CGI animation.
'''Variants:'''
* In one ident, the band is playing on the balcony outside of an apartment where a mother, father, and baby live. The family completely ignores them.
* The other ident has the band playing on a sandy beach at sunset, with two parasailers in the background.


'''Technique:''' Live action.
'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA. The audio design was done by DMC Studio.


'''Audio:''' The Muzak (elevator music) played by the band, which is heavy on marimba.
'''Availability:''' Extinct.


=== 24th Opening (2017) (Brazil) ===
=== 3rd Ident (December 10, 2007-October 30, 2013?) ===


'''Visuals:''' In various ordinary settings, the E4 logo is visible amidst strange phenomena. All of these idents involve stuffed yellow pigs that end up dying on-screen. Other common themes include levitating objects, sudden appearances of live animals at or near the end, CRT televisions, cardboard, Christmas lights, circling sharks, krakens, robots, and wars.
'''Logo:''' TBA.


'''Variants:'''
'''Technique:''' Blocky CGI animation by La Cuerda Producción Audiovisual.
* '''Barn:''' There is a pan through a barn, with a large blue vacuum, a crate marked "FRAGILE", and a wagon covered in purple tarp just outside. The vacuum (which has the E4 logo on it) and a pink toy tractor driven by a yellow stuffed pig come to life. Insects and two duck decoys followed by rubber duckies flee from a bomb the vacuum dropped, which causes the wall behind them to erupt into cardboard flames. The wagon pulls into the barn as its tarp falls off to reveal it is full of produce, while outside, two other yellow pigs flying through the air with a red and blue balloon are visible. An overhead shot shows more of the barn, including its chandelier and checkerboard-patterned wall. The ducks run around in a panic as a purple carpet is laid out for them. The vacuum drops a bomb onto the pig, turning it and its tractor into dust. Two LED light displays rise up from the wagon, showing many copies of the E4 logo in red scrolling downward. The scene cuts to a purple velvet table with a candelabra and many spinning "E4" cans to its right. A teapot and teacups on the table start to levitate upwards. Behind the table, a large LED sign drops into view and changes to show "E4". In the middle of all the chaos, a dog with an Elizabethan collar glances around in confusion.
** There are two short break bumper variants, both focusing on the large "E4" LED and the floating teacups and teapot. One has the sign initially flash a downward arrow before the logo, while the other has it flash the general prohibition symbol instead.
* '''Beach Hut:''' Three huts by the beach are shown, with yellow, red and blue doors and a wicker storage container and purple-and-white striped beach chair in front of them. Two yellow pigs are "floating" on a purple-and-yellow inflatable boat in the sand, one reading a catalog and the other fishing. The fishing pig suddenly gets pulled overboard by a big catch. As the pig still on the boat panics for its friend struggling in the water, the doors to the beach huts open up. The beach hut with the yellow doors contains a purple room with a red couch and a CRT television. A golden ceiling drops down, and the E4 logo appears on the wall behind the couch in glittery purple. The opening of these doors prompts the storage container to spin in a circle, then let out floating cupcakes on plates. The beach hut with the red doors contains many striped beach chairs as well as a purple kraken underneath them, which lifts up the floor and steals the beach chair outside of its lair. The beach hut with the blue doors lets out two salon hair dryer chairs, which zap E4 logos out of their dryers. A red curtain opens to reveal that inside the hut, a yellow pig is riding a green mechanical seahorse attached to a pipe organ. In front of the kraken's hut, the E4 logo formed from white roses rises from a hatch in the floor. LED lights shine withing the "E4", the kraken's hut releases floating inner tubes, beach chairs, buckets, and other beach supplies from its now-opened roof, and two kittens in purple-striped hot air balloons descend from the sky. Meanwhile, the boating pigs are surrounded by sharks. The fishing pig appears to succumb to the fish, followed by the pig's friend falling in.
** The short break bumper variants of this ident show two separate close-up angles of the E4 roses, kraken, and objects floating out the roof.
* '''Hotel/Hotel Room:''' The scene starts with a typical two-bed hotel room, deceptively calm. Suddenly, the curtains to the windows close, and are covered further by purple stage curtains. Papers on a desk fold themselves into origami cranes and fly away as purple goop floods from the drawers and a chair starts to levitate. A yellow pig is on one of the beds with two velvet hatboxes in yellow and magenta. The hatboxes open to reveal they contain two security robots, while the pig gets grabbed by the purple kraken from "Beach Hut" behind the bed. The security robots shoot at the origami cranes, vaporizing one. On the other bed, a yellow floral pillow is crawling up the wall, while the blankets and a pink pillow quickly slide themselves off the bed. As yellow nails roll out from underneath the frame of the now-bare bed, a refrigerator next to three CRT televisions opens to let out a large amount of purple goop filled with white E4 logos and the now-dead yellow pig on a plate with garnish, surrounded by a swimming shark. As the robots continue their war against the cranes, a briefcase opens, letting out a structure of cardboard boxes that folds itself into "E4". Christmas lights string themselves out from the wall, a lamp levitates with the chair, and a flock of two Embden geese and two ducks (Pekin and Khaki Campbell) waddle through the room.
** The break bumper variants are at a low angle, where only the bottom half of the E4 boxes are visible. One shows the security robots firing at the origami cranes, while the other shows a crane flying past unharmed.
* '''Living Room/Sitting Room:''' Per usual, the living room starts as normal. Suddenly, the CRT television turns on to show the band from the 2004 idents. Green grass flows like liquid outside of the fireplace, covering the floor. Trees, flowers, and purple mushrooms grow from the grass (including, as seen when the window opens, outside), while the walls are colored in purple with a white E4 logo and an orange toy UFO lights up. A yellow pig falls off the couch, cupboards open to reveal more E4 logos, and a chair moves closer. A security robot similar to the ones in "Hotel" but with the body of a mecha anime figure fires a shot, as the house's record collection, including an E4 record, flies off the shelves. A war starts between the robot and pig, with the former successfully blowing up the latter in a cardboard explosion with missiles (the couch behind the pig now inexplicably reads "SIT ON ME"). The final shot shows a large E4 logo made of white blocks, the chair sinking in a swampy part of the indoor forest, and a pair of sheep in purple party hats glancing around.
** The break bumpers give a better view at the blocks being built, with one of the variants also including a missile from the robot.
* '''Loading Bay:''' The camera pans through a warehouse with garages marked "01" and "02". Garage 01 opens to free six purple "E4" crates. After sliding into position, the crates open. One contains a yellow pig that runs away, many charger cords, and a levitating pitcher, toaster, and fan. The other crates also contain cords and floating appliances. Garage 02 opens as various wallpaper and a taxidermy deer head that gets covered in Christmas lights lowers, revealing a purple room with expensive furniture and three chickens, a rooster and two hens. A white van with an E4.com license plate pulls in and opens its trunk, rolling out an expensive carpet with a royal crest-bearing bass drum rolling over it. Following the drum are more Christmas lights, a bass pedal, two poodle knick-knacks, and two amps. The floating appliances have formed the E4 logo. A robot sets up a screen beside it reading "SHOVE IT UP YOUR TELLYHOLE". More chickens and garden gnomes gather around the concert. Just when it appears that this is the first ident where it doesn't get hurt, the yellow pig returns only to get grabbed by the robot.
** The break bumpers give a better view of the appliances floating into place, with the deer behind them.
* In addition to the break bumpers derived from longer idents, two generic break bumpers also exist. These show two different angles of an "E4" sticker getting pasted onto a purple surface.


'''Technique:''' A combination of stop motion, CGI, and live action.
'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA. Composed by Ardillón Records.


'''Availability:''' Extinct.
'''Audio:''' Depends on the variant.


=== 25th Opening (2018) (Brazil) ===
===4th Ident (Eefer) (October 31, 2013-2018)===


'''Logo:''' TBA.
'''Visuals:'''


'''Variants:'''
'''Technique:''' CGI animation. This was made under the agency Z+.


'''Technique:'''
'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA. Composed by Lira Música.


'''Audio:'''
'''Availability:''' Unknown, possibly extinct.

Latest revision as of 04:19, 24 September 2024

This is for the future so I don't have to feel as pressured writing descriptions all at once. This includes links when applicable. Feel free to use those links to work on things yourself.

To do:

We're gonna party, we're gonna rock, we've got tickets to the Cinemark!

13th Opening (2008-2012) (Segurito y el Gato Joe) (Chile)


This is still here for easy access in case someone my stepmom knows does translations in the future.

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Background

Fraggle Rock is a family puppet series created by Jim Henson that ran from 1983 to 1987. Filmed in Canada, the show was created out of a desire to cause world peace. It focuses on the titular underground world of Fraggle Rock, where many creatures, notably the Fraggles, Doozers, and Gorgs, live their lives and slowly, over the course of 5 seasons, learn how they are connected. The show has been acclaimed for its handling of many difficult subjects, such as death, prejudice, societal injustice, and protecting the environment, and containing many catchy songs to keep things from getting too heavy. A rebooted series, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, premiered on Apple TV+ on the night of January 20, 2022.

Theme Song (January 10, 1983-March 30, 1987)


Visuals:

  1. The camera pans through the window of a house with ivy growing on it. Inside is an old man named Doc (Gerry Parkes) and his dog, Sprocket (Steve Whitmire). Doc is working hard at his workshop with a screwdriver, while Sprocket, who is lying on a dog bed next to a yellow bowl with his name on it, shifts his weight. The camera continues panning through the workshop to a hole in the wall.
  2. Through the hole is a tunnel in Fraggle Rock, which Gobo Fraggle (in his early design, as the intro was never re-filmed; performed by Jerry Nelson) is hopping through excitedly. Eventually, he makes it back to the Great Hall, where a large crowd of Fraggles, including the other members of the main "Fraggle Five" (from left to right: Mokey (Kathryn Mullen), Red (Karen Prell), Wembley (Steve Whitmire), and Boober (Dave Goelz)) are waiting for him. Some Doozers are also visible on some Doozer constructions. The crowd sings the theme song together, clapping to the rhythm at certain points.
  3. A page-turn transition reveals another angle of the Fraggles, including a parent holding a baby (baby Fraggles were ultimately very rare until Back to the Rock due to the show's reluctance to cover childbirth).
  4. Another page-turn flips into a closer view of the Doozers, hard at work building a tower. Some are driving vehicles, and others are working with jackhammers, but all are singing a verse in the song. The Fraggle Five pop up behind them. The camera gets closer to them, then pans from left to right, showcasing Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and finally Red.
  5. A sudden cut shows Red gleefully diving into a pond in the background as Gobo further explores into the caves. After several shots of him exploring, he makes it through a hole to peek out into the Gorgs' Garden. Junior Gorg (Richard Hunt performing face and voice, Rob Mills in suit) spots him, and grabs him in his massive hand. Excited to have caught a "Fwaggle", Junior lifts Gobo into the garden and gleefully shows him to his Ma (like Gobo, in her early design; Myra Fried performing face and voice and Trish Leeper in suit), who screams in fright at the creature (Pa Gorg (Jerry Nelson performing face, Gord Robertson in suit) is slightly visible behind Junior). Ma's scream startles Junior, causing him to accidentally fling Gobo into the well (a closer look shows that the plush prop representing Gobo rather violently hits the well's side before falling in).
  6. He falls into a pond in the Great Hall below as all the other Fraggles continue singing and dancing. With the text "FRAGGLE ROCK" in the golden shape of a rock superimposed over the scene, the rest of the Fraggle Five regroup around him, as Wembley voluntarily dives in next to him.
  7. A shot is shown of the Fraggle Five minus Boober, with Red and Mokey doing a single nod out of the water and Wembley and Gobo still drenched between them. The text "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" fades in in turquoise below "FRAGGLE ROCK" before the logo disappears.
  8. The final shot is of Boober, lying on his stomach near some purple flowers with his hands on his chin. After saying "down at Fraggle Rock" in a monotone voice, he crouches down in time with the music.

Trivia:

  • The song has been referenced within the show itself on several occasions:
    • "Boober Rock" (Season 2, Episode 2): Red sings the song loudly while playing with other Fraggles, to Boober's annoyance. Later, she sings her own version of the song to mock Boober: "Dance your pants away/Worries will be here to stay/If you spend your day/Down in Boober Rock!"
    • "Boober's Dream" (Season 2, Episode 6): Sidebottom can briefly be heard singing the song after "Dream A Dream (And See)" ends.
    • "Fraggle Wars" (Season 2, Episode 17): The Cave Fraggles, in contrast to the Rock Fraggles, have their own 1st wave alternative rock version of the theme, "Down In Fraggle Cave": "Worry, wrath, and rave/No time now for being brave/Order's what we crave/Down in Fraggle Cave"
    • "Gobo's School for Explorers" (Season 3, Episode 12): Gobo briefly whistles the theme.
    • "The Riddle of Rhyming Rock" (Season 5, Episode 2): Gobo sings the theme in an attempt to solve the titular riddle.
    • "Mokey, Then and Now" (Season 5, Episode 8): It is revealed that, due to a bootstrap paradox, Mokey is the one who technically wrote the theme due to her also being the savior of the Ancient Fraggles, Blundig, who traveled back in time. She sings the song to the Ancient Fraggles, who are so impressed by its ideals that they abolish laws against laughter to dance and play like the song tells them to, sparking the beginning of the Fraggles as we know them now.
  • Out of 17 possible intros, Jim Henson chose this one, the 11th.
  • According to the book Fraggle Rock: The Ultimate Visual History (2021):
    • Out of all the work Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee did for the show, the theme song was the biggest challenge. This is because the series has a remarkably complex premise that was difficult to explain with a song in such a short runtime.
    • The process of writing the theme didn't start until five or six episodes were filmed.
    • The ultimate focus on only the chorus instead of the verse-and-chorus structure of the unused theme was due to the limited time allowed for a theme song making the chorus the strongest part, overshadowing the rest.
    • The single most challenging part to write was where to put the Fraggle Five introducing themselves individually, as Jim Henson requested it be part of the theme, but there wasn't a lot of room for it. This explains why said verse is so rapid-fire. The speed of the verse made it so that Balsam himself couldn't sing it, though Jim Henson could.
    • As it was very chilly in Toronto on the day of filming (in January of 1983), most of the puppeteers were sick with colds and the flu.
    • The clapping was done with mechanisms inside of the Fraggles' arms. Red's arm mechanism was broken, however, so Karen Prell hid her puppet's arms behind a rock.
  • At end of the music video for "Do It Anyway" by Ben Folds Five (2013), which heavily features the Fraggles throughout, the band briefly covers the song alongside Red and Boober.
  • In the final 2020 quarantine-produced Fraggle Rock: Rock On! short, the theme is covered by a wide range of celebrities: Alanis Morrisette, Ziggy Marley, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Common, and Jason Mraz.

Variants:

  • Due to the show's international nature, three countries - the UK, France, and Germany - replaced the North American Doc and Sprocket segments with locally-shot ones. As such, the first scene is altered accordingly:
    • UK: The camera pans over a lighthouse (St. Anthony's Head Lighthouse at Falmouth Harbor in Cornwall, England) on a rocky British shore as waves crash. It zooms closer until it goes through a window on the roof. What follows inside the lighthouse depends on the variant:
      • One variant extends the beginning lighthouse shots to pan over the ocean.
      • On most episodes, The Captain (Fulton MacKay) and Sprocket (Dave Barclay) sit at a desk playing chess together.
      • Some episodes show The Captain filling Sprocket's dog bowl.
      • On "The Bells of Fraggle Rock" (Season 3, Episode 1 in North America, an unnumbered special in the UK), the lighthouse is decorated inside for Christmas, with a Christmas tree. The Captain gives Sprocket a present.
      • On "Born to Wander" (Season 3, Episode 15 in North America, Episode 401 in the UK), Sprocket is in the lighthouse all alone, as The Captain has left and his new owner, his nephew P.K., hasn't arrived yet. He checks under his empty bowl for kibble, but there is none. He sadly rests his chin on his paw.
      • Starting with "Boober and the Glob" (Season 3, Episode 2 in North America, Episode 402 in the UK), P.K. (John Gordon Sinclair) and Sprocket play tug-of-war with a toy rope. Sprocket pulls P.K. to the ground.
      • From "Gone, But Not Forgotten" (Season 5, Episode 7 in North America, Episode 601 in the UK) to the end of the series, the scene is superimposed over the window as it is entered. Sprocket's new owner, B.J., (Simon O'Brien) is rubbing his belly.
      • Regardless of variant, the camera then pans past the dog and owner into a hole in the wall.
    • France: The camera pans through different windows from the North American version. Inside, Croquette, the French version of Sprocket (Dave Barclay), is lying in his bed. Behind the desk, the French version of Doc (Michel Robin) is tinkering with something. The camera pans through a hole in the wall.
    • Germany: The camera pans through a semicircle-shaped window on a brick building covered in moss. The rest of the scene is a shot-for-shot remake of the North American one, but with the German Doc (Hans-Helmut Dickow).
  • Five endings were shot, one for each main Fraggle, but it appears the crew ultimately wanted to stick to Boober's ending. Two variants have resurfaced, however:
    • Wembley: Wembley whispers "down at Fraggle Rock!" Appeared on the original airing of "The Terrible Tunnel" (Season 1, Episode 8).
    • Gobo: Gobo says "down at Fraggle Rock!" as he holds an odd racket-like object. He then hits a pebble volleyed at him with it. Appeared on the original airing of "The Finger of Light" (Season 1, Episode 12).
    • The variants with Mokey and Red, while reportedly in existence, have yet to resurface.
    • Oddly, prints from 2016 onwards, including Apple TV+ prints of these episodes, keep the audio of Gobo and Wembley's lines, but play it over Boober's footage.
  • Many color variants for the "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" text exist, with it coming in multiple shades of orange, green, teal, blue, purple, and pink.
  • On many 2000s and 2010s prints, the superimposed logo has been changed to match the current logo of the franchise, which has the Jim Henson logo atop it, is yellow in color, and isn't rock-shaped. It also fades in much faster, before Wembley dives into the pond. The likely reason for this change is because of the fact that, since 2004, the Fraggles have been unable to be legally called "Muppets". Despite this, the original logo, "with JIM HENSON'S MUPPETS" text and all, is still intact on airings on The Hub and Apple TV+ prints.
  • On the 1984 Doozer Music VHS compilation tape (which is streaming on Apple TV+), the song stops after the Doozers' verse.
  • Many relatively-recent TV airings, such as on Odyssey Network and The Hub (both now defunct), shortened the theme, skipping from the end of the first verse in the Great Hall to Boober's ending line.

Technique: Live-action puppetry.

Song: Opening with a bassline, a cheery, catchy song with rhythmic clapping sung by all of the citizens of the Rock, written by the show's two most prolific songwriters, Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee.

Lyrics:

Other Audio:

Legacy: A very popular theme that, similarly to those for DuckTales and Animaniacs, is particularly infamous for its catchiness.

E4

Background

E4 is a sister channel to Channel 4, launched in the UK on January 18, 2001. It airs programming for younger audiences than the main channel, such as reality TV, American imports, and youth-oriented dramas, most notable being the long-running soap opera Hollyoaks. In the past, the network also aired lots of comedy, but most of the comedy has been moved to another sister channel, E4 Extra, that was launched in 2022.

Note: This page only covers the channel's main idents. For the many E-Stings made for the network, go to this page instead.

1st Ident (January 18, 2001-2004)

Visuals: Depends on the variant, though CGI, sapient E4 logos with squeaky voices and mischievous personalities, as well as the destruction of Channel 4 idents, are two very common themes.

Variants:

  • Breakdown: The teal variant of the 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. Suddenly, a purple "E4" leaps out through the lines. It halts their movement, and holds the lines open like an elevator, revealing the room behind it. Other colorful "E4"s, in red, blue, yellow, and green, leap over the purple "E4" as it struggles to keep the rectangles open. The purple "E4" strains itself, causing one of the rectangles to fall to the ground and the Channel 4 logo in its square (which was suspended to the mechanism) to burn out its light. The purple "E4" falls over, taking the rectangle to its left with it. It looks around alarmed as the whole Channel 4 ident mechanism breaks down, with most of the rectangles collapsing and the Channel 4 light flickering in and out. The other "E4"s hop by from from left to right, and the purple "E4" joins them.
  • Race: Two slot race cars, a red one numbered "6" and the other one in yellow and marked "E4", start to race. They zoom past the plastic scenery, including figures of the pit crew. A police car gets involved and halts the race. An aerial shot reveals that the track is in the shape of the E4 logo.
  • Gravy: A mother prepares mashed potatoes and sausages in a kitchen. At the table, her three daughters are remarkably impatient, screaming at her for the food and loudly banging their forks and knives against the table. The mom pours gravy over the dish, which takes the shape of the E4 logo. Exhausted, she yells "coming!" After a bit, she lifts the plate.
  • Coloured Bars: SMPTE color bars are shown. The bars are zoomed into, revealing that they are made of monochrome E4 logos and that two "E4"s, a purple and a blue, are standing in the wrong places. The two "E4"s swap spots. The screen zooms out again.
  • Rabbits: Inside a house, plants grow taller in time-lapse photography. Various mail and a telephone are thrown into the plants. Three white rabbits, a New Zealand, an English lop, and a smaller lop (either a Holland lop or mini lop), are dropped in. They hop around munching on the plants. An overhead shot reveals that they ate an "E4" into the plants.
  • Factory: The blue 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. The camera pans over it as the Channel 4 square logo slides out of the way like a sliding door, revealing an orange light. 1982 Channel 4 logos line up to fall into the light, moved forward by the top of the rectangles functioning as a conveyor belt. As they fall, the blocks of the "4"s separate and form into multicolored individual E4 logos. The "E4"s then fall into packing peanuts within "E4"-marked boxes on a conveyor belt.
  • Escape: The orange 1999 Channel 4 "rectangles" ident starts as normal. A pan underneath the ident reveals that the rectangles are lasers that five "E4"s (green, red, blue, purple, and yellow) are trying to dodge. While the others escape, the yellow "E4" lags behind, touches a laser, and gets caught. The lasers turn off to reveal a spotlight on the terrified yellow "E4". It turns around, only to get gunned down and fall on the floor. It turns out, however, that bullet holes only formed around the "E4", leaving the impression of the E4 logo on the ground. The yellow "E4", happy to be immune to bullets, gets up and skips away.
  • Puzzle: On a bare hospital bed in a dark, grimy room, a blue "E4" wakes up in a cold, panicked sweat. It watches in horror as the other "E4"s hop around it. The camera zooms out and flips upside-down to reveal that the other "E4"s are exploring the stairs from "Relativity" by M.C. Escher. The blue "E4" becomes even more frightened when it realizes that its bed is upside-down. It falls a long way through the stairs to its hospital bed, again in a cold sweat as the cycle repeats itself.
  • Shattered: The 1982 Channel 4 logo starts as normal. It falls over and shatters. From the shattered pieces, many "E4"s are born, gleefully hopping away. The others outside of a single purple "E4" leave, and the purple "E4" takes the place of the Channel 4 logo.

Technique: Depends on the variant.

Audio: Depends on the variant.

2nd Ident (2004-December 9, 2007?)

Visuals: A pair of idents involving an "E4"-branded band in purple suits, consisting of three guitarists, a drummer, and a man on the marimba, playing Muzak. The E4 logo appears in white in the corner.

Variants:

  • In one ident, the band is playing on the balcony outside of an apartment where a mother, father, and baby live. The family completely ignores them.
  • The other ident has the band playing on a sandy beach at sunset, with two parasailers in the background.

Technique: Live action.

Audio: The Muzak (elevator music) played by the band, which is heavy on marimba.

3rd Ident (December 10, 2007-October 30, 2013?)

Visuals: In various ordinary settings, the E4 logo is visible amidst strange phenomena. All of these idents involve stuffed yellow pigs that end up dying on-screen. Other common themes include levitating objects, sudden appearances of live animals at or near the end, CRT televisions, cardboard, Christmas lights, circling sharks, krakens, robots, and wars.

Variants:

  • Barn: There is a pan through a barn, with a large blue vacuum, a crate marked "FRAGILE", and a wagon covered in purple tarp just outside. The vacuum (which has the E4 logo on it) and a pink toy tractor driven by a yellow stuffed pig come to life. Insects and two duck decoys followed by rubber duckies flee from a bomb the vacuum dropped, which causes the wall behind them to erupt into cardboard flames. The wagon pulls into the barn as its tarp falls off to reveal it is full of produce, while outside, two other yellow pigs flying through the air with a red and blue balloon are visible. An overhead shot shows more of the barn, including its chandelier and checkerboard-patterned wall. The ducks run around in a panic as a purple carpet is laid out for them. The vacuum drops a bomb onto the pig, turning it and its tractor into dust. Two LED light displays rise up from the wagon, showing many copies of the E4 logo in red scrolling downward. The scene cuts to a purple velvet table with a candelabra and many spinning "E4" cans to its right. A teapot and teacups on the table start to levitate upwards. Behind the table, a large LED sign drops into view and changes to show "E4". In the middle of all the chaos, a dog with an Elizabethan collar glances around in confusion.
    • There are two short break bumper variants, both focusing on the large "E4" LED and the floating teacups and teapot. One has the sign initially flash a downward arrow before the logo, while the other has it flash the general prohibition symbol instead.
  • Beach Hut: Three huts by the beach are shown, with yellow, red and blue doors and a wicker storage container and purple-and-white striped beach chair in front of them. Two yellow pigs are "floating" on a purple-and-yellow inflatable boat in the sand, one reading a catalog and the other fishing. The fishing pig suddenly gets pulled overboard by a big catch. As the pig still on the boat panics for its friend struggling in the water, the doors to the beach huts open up. The beach hut with the yellow doors contains a purple room with a red couch and a CRT television. A golden ceiling drops down, and the E4 logo appears on the wall behind the couch in glittery purple. The opening of these doors prompts the storage container to spin in a circle, then let out floating cupcakes on plates. The beach hut with the red doors contains many striped beach chairs as well as a purple kraken underneath them, which lifts up the floor and steals the beach chair outside of its lair. The beach hut with the blue doors lets out two salon hair dryer chairs, which zap E4 logos out of their dryers. A red curtain opens to reveal that inside the hut, a yellow pig is riding a green mechanical seahorse attached to a pipe organ. In front of the kraken's hut, the E4 logo formed from white roses rises from a hatch in the floor. LED lights shine withing the "E4", the kraken's hut releases floating inner tubes, beach chairs, buckets, and other beach supplies from its now-opened roof, and two kittens in purple-striped hot air balloons descend from the sky. Meanwhile, the boating pigs are surrounded by sharks. The fishing pig appears to succumb to the fish, followed by the pig's friend falling in.
    • The short break bumper variants of this ident show two separate close-up angles of the E4 roses, kraken, and objects floating out the roof.
  • Hotel/Hotel Room: The scene starts with a typical two-bed hotel room, deceptively calm. Suddenly, the curtains to the windows close, and are covered further by purple stage curtains. Papers on a desk fold themselves into origami cranes and fly away as purple goop floods from the drawers and a chair starts to levitate. A yellow pig is on one of the beds with two velvet hatboxes in yellow and magenta. The hatboxes open to reveal they contain two security robots, while the pig gets grabbed by the purple kraken from "Beach Hut" behind the bed. The security robots shoot at the origami cranes, vaporizing one. On the other bed, a yellow floral pillow is crawling up the wall, while the blankets and a pink pillow quickly slide themselves off the bed. As yellow nails roll out from underneath the frame of the now-bare bed, a refrigerator next to three CRT televisions opens to let out a large amount of purple goop filled with white E4 logos and the now-dead yellow pig on a plate with garnish, surrounded by a swimming shark. As the robots continue their war against the cranes, a briefcase opens, letting out a structure of cardboard boxes that folds itself into "E4". Christmas lights string themselves out from the wall, a lamp levitates with the chair, and a flock of two Embden geese and two ducks (Pekin and Khaki Campbell) waddle through the room.
    • The break bumper variants are at a low angle, where only the bottom half of the E4 boxes are visible. One shows the security robots firing at the origami cranes, while the other shows a crane flying past unharmed.
  • Living Room/Sitting Room: Per usual, the living room starts as normal. Suddenly, the CRT television turns on to show the band from the 2004 idents. Green grass flows like liquid outside of the fireplace, covering the floor. Trees, flowers, and purple mushrooms grow from the grass (including, as seen when the window opens, outside), while the walls are colored in purple with a white E4 logo and an orange toy UFO lights up. A yellow pig falls off the couch, cupboards open to reveal more E4 logos, and a chair moves closer. A security robot similar to the ones in "Hotel" but with the body of a mecha anime figure fires a shot, as the house's record collection, including an E4 record, flies off the shelves. A war starts between the robot and pig, with the former successfully blowing up the latter in a cardboard explosion with missiles (the couch behind the pig now inexplicably reads "SIT ON ME"). The final shot shows a large E4 logo made of white blocks, the chair sinking in a swampy part of the indoor forest, and a pair of sheep in purple party hats glancing around.
    • The break bumpers give a better view at the blocks being built, with one of the variants also including a missile from the robot.
  • Loading Bay: The camera pans through a warehouse with garages marked "01" and "02". Garage 01 opens to free six purple "E4" crates. After sliding into position, the crates open. One contains a yellow pig that runs away, many charger cords, and a levitating pitcher, toaster, and fan. The other crates also contain cords and floating appliances. Garage 02 opens as various wallpaper and a taxidermy deer head that gets covered in Christmas lights lowers, revealing a purple room with expensive furniture and three chickens, a rooster and two hens. A white van with an E4.com license plate pulls in and opens its trunk, rolling out an expensive carpet with a royal crest-bearing bass drum rolling over it. Following the drum are more Christmas lights, a bass pedal, two poodle knick-knacks, and two amps. The floating appliances have formed the E4 logo. A robot sets up a screen beside it reading "SHOVE IT UP YOUR TELLYHOLE". More chickens and garden gnomes gather around the concert. Just when it appears that this is the first ident where it doesn't get hurt, the yellow pig returns only to get grabbed by the robot.
    • The break bumpers give a better view of the appliances floating into place, with the deer behind them.
  • In addition to the break bumpers derived from longer idents, two generic break bumpers also exist. These show two different angles of an "E4" sticker getting pasted onto a purple surface.

Technique: A combination of stop motion, CGI, and live action.

Audio: Depends on the variant.

4th Ident (Eefer) (October 31, 2013-2018)

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